Tonia Carless

Tonia's research and teaching is centred upon representational practice, drawing as architectural research and theory through transdisciplinary practice. She researches in urban inequalities, urban transformation and social and material sustainability and is undertaking a collaborative research project on the 'Mediated University' (a forthcoming book) on the social production of space, as well as publications on architecture film making, visual research methods in architecture and reconsiderations of interior architecture. She completed a practice based PhD, through written, drawn and spatial thesis on architectural drawing and its relationship with the changing conditions of urban space.

Tonia has held academic positions as Programme Leader for Interior Architecture at The University of The West of England Bristol and Oxford Brookes School of Architecture, both in the UK. She is currently External Examiner for Birmingham City (UK) University School of Architecture Interior Architecture and Design Courses.